P.J. Michaud

I've lived in the St. John Valley most of my life. I'm a 45-year-old mother of three whose been married for 26 years. Some of the jobs I've worked at include machinist, Tupperware sales consultant, Associate Broker (real estate), and teacher aide. My husband has been in the carpentry trade most of his life; and I've managed our construction business. We employed over twenty people at one point; but we've since closed the business. I continue to manage the rental properties we own.

I became active in politics after I had represented our business and my family members in judicial matters and discovered that no matter how good my evidence was... it didn't seem to matter. It was as though the judges had made up their minds about who was going to win the case before they even heard what the parties had to say. I decided to write a book to expose the obvious errors and corruption I'd witnessed first-hand. In 2006, I began blogging about other injustices I heard of and read about.

In March of 2009, in an effort to pass judicial reform in Maine, I presented the Maine legislature with the JAIL 4 Judges mission statement. Soon afterward, I learned that the position of JAILer-In-Chief for Maine was open, and decided to fill it. J.A.I.L. (Judicial Accountability Initiative Law) is one of the most promising solutions for putting a halt to the abuse of discretion (I'm being nice here) which judges around the country are engaging in. J.A.I.L. is an amendment to a state or federal Constitution, which creates grand juries of citizens for the purpose of putting a judge on trial. At least two other people sent the four-page JAIL amendment to the judiciary committee in an effort to get them to consider it under LD 491 "An Act to Reform Maine's Justice System," but the committee simply shoved it aside... one member saying that the reason being: LD 491 was "too broad."